Eisegeted vs Eisegetes - What's the difference?
eisegeted | eisegetes |
(eisegete)
A person who places meaning on a text which is not originally or inherently present in the text itself.
To place meaning on a text which is not originally or inherently present in the text itself
*Derrida and Religion: Other Testaments edited by Yvonne Sherwood, Kevin Hart (page 255) (, ISBN 0415968887) [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0415968887&id=9MD3qFaGYKcC&pg=PA255&lpg=PA255&ots=WTzI0sbp1m&dq=eisegete&sig=FYhXwSuFYFJfumbj9GFo-WlHF7c]
*:And nowhere does that nongivenness appear more clearly, paradoxial as that may be, than in the image of Jesus writing something that we readers cannot read, cannot exegete or eisegete , and therefore cannot deconstruct.